Fantasy Flight is getting in deep with the family. A spin on the classic Mafia card game, Mafia: Vendetta is a deception game in the vein of Bang! and Ultimate Werewolf. However, in Mafia: Vendetta, players are attempting to weed out the mobbed up individuals within the group. Over the rounds, players will pose accusations in an effort to uncover the covert culprits, but players will also be eliminated, slowly parring down the number of players.

Adding cards twenty-one to forty of the Westeros cycle, The Road to Winterfell is a chapter pack of sixty new cards for the A Game of Thrones LCG. These cards are meant to augment existing decks and add variety to the base game and expansions from the series.

Much like Smash Up’s Big Geeky Box, Pixel Tactics Deluxe simultaneously acts as an expansion, a base game, and a container for your cards. In addition to a complete set of never-before seen heroes, Pixel Tactics Deluxe gives you a large storage box to keep your whole collection in one, a bonus minipak expansion, and a big rulebook that introduces new play modes, including Large-Group League Play. Deluxe is also fully playable on its own, but combining multiple Pixel Tactics games together gives you a ton of new ways to play.

Another in the popular The End of the World RPG series, Alien Invasion drops this weekend. Like the other apocalypse scenarios, Alien Invasion has players actually playing themselves in the campaign, with the stats to reflect their own (so you might want to start training now). Outside of the instructions for the rule system, this hardcover volume also includes character creation rules and five different scenarios that homage various alien invasion plots (such as giant insects, alien infiltration, and the class flying saucers).

Everyone knows that the bad guys have all the fun in comic books, so Sentinels of the Multiverse is giving players a chance to experience what it’s like to be villainous. Villains of the Multiverse is a mega expansion for the game, using the villain team gameplay mechanics introduced in Sentinels of the Multiverse: Vengeance to group villains together as a team fighting against a hero team. Ten new villains are included, which can be faced in any configuration, as well as four new environments.

Much like Magic the Gathering, a new Pokemon set is always a moment for celebration if you’re an avid CCG player. Pokemon Breakpoint is the newest set, including 120 cards that expand on the storyline regarding the rift between worlds. In addition to the regular booster pack release, there is also a Elite Training Box for the set that includes eight booster packs, card sleeves, dice, tokens, and a card box with dividers.

Somewhere between Quarriors and a resource management game, King’s Forge is a fantasy-based dice game for two to four players. In the game, players will collect and utilize various different dice to build items or trade for better dice. In order to do this, players will traverse nineteen realms, each with their own dice opportunities, and decide whether to keep their dice or construct one of thirty-two different creations. And if that sounds slightly disorganized, don’t worry, because this edition also comes with a game board to help organize everything.

Cats are big business in the gaming world right now, so IDW has jumped on the bandwagon with Cat Tower. This dexterity game is not only extremely cute, but also an excellent party game. For two to six players, Cat Tower involves the stacking of foldable cat cards, much like a furry Jenga. The order and position of the cats is decided by the roll of a die, but do be careful rolling that die, because each fallen cat goes directly into the guilty player’s deck. The more you have, the less points you gain.

Classic dungeon crawling adventuring is combined with mix-and-match optioning with the throw-back RPG system, Dungeon World. A successful Kickstarter product, Dungeon World is an approachable role playing system that is contained in a single book that allows players to assemble, altered, remove, and augment rules, classes, races, NPCs, monsters, and more. A great introductory fantasy RPG!

The Warmachine Vengeance softcover edition brings a new layer to the sordid tale Khador, Cygnar, Cryx, and the other factions. Within this volume are stats and information for new Warcasters, units, solos, a painting guide, and a theme force list that offers information on how to construct armies around specialized forces.

Conflict rages within the Damocles Gulf corner of the Warhammer universe.

A new Apocalypse War Zone supplement, the Damocles HC, provides players the information needed to reenact this major conflict, including the historical background of Shadowsun‘s attack on the Gulf, a detailed explanation of The Battle of Agrellan Prime, a selection of new rules, missions, and strategic assets, and eighteen datasheets for various faction-based forces.

Hulk smashes, why can’t you?

Smash Up receives another expansion this weekend, which, as is the case with all the game’s expansions, adds a four entirely new and entirely random genres of cards. Science Fiction Double Feature includes Time Travelers, Cyborg Apes, Super Spies, and Shapeshifters. Slam them together (or with decks from previous expansions) and get to fighting!

We, the royal monarch of Pulpington, do dub thee the Imperial Knight Titan!

Yes, this hotly awaited Warhammer 40K, super heavy walker is finally in the store, as of today! As well, the newest issue of White Dwarf, which includes the stats and information for the Titan, is out today!

While the first Boss Monster expansion is called Tools of a Hero-Kind, it also could have been called On Steroids, as the cards contained within this expansion beef-up the base games weaker hero cards beyond what they were. This expansion contains new item cards that combine with the previous hero cards to make each hero’s defeat that much more lucrative, as each item provides special offensive abilities for those who defeat the hero carrying it.

The Justice League has just run a recruitment drive, and the new members are decided!

The first expansion for the DC Deck Building card game, Heroes Unite, is out this weekend. Containing seven additional heroes to play and add to the base game, including fan favorites like Nightwing and Booster Gold, heavy hitters like Shazam and Red tornado, and agile femme fighters like Batgirl and Black Canary.

Sprinkle the fairy dust all around because Once Upon a Fable is taking you to a mystical, merry, unicorn-laden land.

A one to six player game, Once Upon a Fable is all about expansion, seeing players build their fairy kingdoms outward through a variety of means. Whoever has acquired the most points from building by the end of nine rounds wins the game. Along with the base game, a seven to eight player expansion (New Kingdoms) as well as the Tree of Wonders wooden pieces enhancement expansion, providing wooden versions of the plastic pieces from the base game and New Kingdoms expansion.

The dungeon crawling continues as Talisman gains another expansion pack this weekend.

The Firelands is all about adding new characters, as the pack contains the Dervish, the Warlord, the Nomad, and the Jin Blooded, each with their own unique abilities. Three new alternate ending cards are also included alongside new terrain cards that allow players to alter the landscape of the game.

Never before has there been such a wretched RPG hive of scum and villainy as the Star Wars Edge of the Empire supplement, Dangerous Covenants. This hardcover edition contains character options for hired gun characters, as well as expanded options regarding Motivations, Obligations, species, and specializations. Game Masters are also given information on how to incorporate these types of characters into their game.

Pulp Fiction just received multiple copies of the exceptionally rare Vengeance issue of the highly sought after Sentinels of the Multiverse comic!

Within this expanded issue, the classic hero team that is The Sentinels (now capable of being represented by a single card) must go head-to-head with an equal and opposite team of supervillains (each player must face down their own villain card).

That’s the case with Dennis Hopeless’ Avengers Arena, anyway. As one of the characters in the first issue points out, there’s been a recent popularity in the teenagers-forced-to-kill each other genre of late, but there’s never been any superhero books that have adapted the concept. Until Avengers Arena #1. Spinning out of Christos Gage’s Avengers Academy, Brian K. Vaughn’s Runaways, and the X-Men books, this Battle Royale of teen heroes is violent, emotional, and shocking. Fans of LOST will love the series, as well, since each issue is structured around one or two characters, making the large cast accessible as well as heightening the tension of who will live and who will die. And, trust me, there’s a lot of death going around here.

And if you are planning on grabbing a copy of Avengers Arena #1 and, Dennis’ other Marvel NOW! series, Cable & X-Force on Wednesday, he’ll be at the store from 12-8 signing copies of these books as well as any of his previous work! We’ll also have copies of every variant cover for the book, so if you’re the collector type have Dennis sign one of those for piece of Marvel memorabilia.

One of the most popular cult series of all time, The Crow, receives a new chapter from its creator, James O’Barr, this Wednesday. After having been away from the series for nearly twenty years, O’Barr returns as both writer and artist for the three-part Crow: Skinning the Wolves miniseries. O’Barr has been planning to write this story ever since he created The Crow, setting the character into one of the darkest situations in human history: the holocaust. Seeking vengeance against his captors, one victim is brought back from the dead by The Crow‘s powers, setting him on a course of violence against the Nazi scum who are committing the atrocities around him. Anyone who knows anything about The Crow knows that the series has had troubles with remaining in print since it first was released, so if you want a copy Wednesday, show up early. You may not get the chance later.

If movies have taught me anything, it’s that small towns are invariably supernatural. Revival has become one of Image Comics‘ most popular ongoing series since its release, being dubbed the new Walking Dead, in some cases. Taking place in a tiny rural town, the story revolves around the town’s residents coming back from the dead. Not, however, in a zombie-esque sort of way, though, but instead returning just as they left and having to reincorporate themselves into the population. Obviously, there are some questions over how and why this is happening. Tim Seeley, the creator of Hack/Slash, and Mike Norton, artist on Battlepug, are making Revival a must-read series each month, and this collection of the first six issues is exactly where you need to jump in.

What do a wealthy rapper, a thieving screenwriter, and a cosmonaut on his last legs have in common? They star in Ales Kot’s new Image comic, Change. Also, they are Los Angles’ only hope against evil forces who threaten the city in time periods throughout history. His sophomore comic effort after the surreal experience that was the Wild Children one-shot from earlier this year, Ales Kot brings his unique voice to the sci-fi genre with the time-jumping madness that is Change #1.

Releasing tomorrow night at midnight (or Friday night, if you look at it that way) is Dark Vengeance, the new Warhammer 40K starter box set. This limited edition version comes with an exclusive Interrogator-Chaplain Serphicus figure (which will only ever be released in this set) as well as all the other essential materials to get started with Warhammer 40K. In place of the Space Marines and Orks of the last set are replaced with Chaos Space Marines and Dark Angels.

Only one Pathfinder book comes stocked full of thousands of weapons, itmes, armors, and gear. It’s Ultimate Equipment and it’s out this week. Like the previous Ultimate volumes for the Pathfinder system, this hardcover editon is chock full of every detail and variation on all the knick knacks and paddywhacks you could ever want in your game.

The best, most authentic Lord of the Rings RPG gains a new volume this week in Tales from Wilderland. Tales from Wilderland contains seven ready-to-play adventures, complete scenarios that can be played separately, or as an epic campaign spanning across a number of years. All adventures are set in the years after 2946, and take place in Wilderland.

Zombies!!! 11: Death Inc., a stand-alone edition to the popular series, plays two to six players and features another alterable map, this time set in a corporate office building. As players move through the building they lay down new tiles, slowly expanding the playing field. Zombies will spawn randomly as you explore, though, so make sure your shotgun is loaded and your chainsaw is primed.

Always a highlight of any New Game Stuff is when a new Dominion expansion comes out. This time it’s Dominion Dark Ages, the seventh addition to the base game this version of the game features Ruin cards (another “bad” option to clog your opponent’s deck), Shelter cards (replaing starting estates), and cards which you can only get via other cards. Oh, and it these cards feature artwork by local artist and Pulp Customer Eric J. Carter.

The brutal beasts of Pathfinder are unleashed with the new Bestiary Box! With over 300 creature tokens for in game use and individual bases for each one, this collection is the easiest way to flesh out your game as well as being way cheaper than collection miniatures for each of these creatures.

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